Greece has suspended flights to and from Qatar after 12 passengers arriving from Doha to Athens tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Greek civil protection authority said 12 out of 91 people on a Qatar Airways flight that arrived on Monday had tested positive for Covid-19.
“Following these epidemiological facts, flights from and to Qatar are suspended until June 15,” the agency said in a statement.
Among those that tested positive on Monday’s flight were nine Pakistani nationals legally resident in Greece, two Greeks from Australia and a member of a Greek-Japanese family, the statement added.
They will be quarantined at a hotel for two weeks, it said. Those who tested negative will remain in isolation for 7 days.